Word: kill
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...black car shot ahead along the die-straight highway at 80 m.p.h., leaving his escort of police motorcycles and official limousines far behind. Scelba was racing into the "triangle of death," a section of Emilia in northern Italy, the notorious Red stronghold where scores of men have been killed in violent flare-ups between Communists and antiCommunists. There were plenty of Reds who would have liked to kill Minister Scelba himself...
...political point to make, and in several speeches during his visit to Emilia he explained the point. Said he: "Communists speculate on the fears of others . . . The Italian Communists are only a minority [but] with threats and violence they intimidate large sections of the population . . . We must kill this inferiority complex which persists where Communists are concerned...
...Times of Calamity." To help kill the inferiority complex, Scelba had a plan. Scelba wanted to establish a civilian volunteer force, a kind of home guard, that could protect Italy against Red sabotage. It was Scelba's answer to recent well-documented reports that the Communists are training guerrillas and saboteurs in the hills...
...there bullets in your gun?' 'No, chief. Only buckshot and small shot, the kind I use on hyenas.' 'The kind you use on hyenas! Why?' 'Because I would have enjoyed letting the aggressors suffer as the hyenas whom I kill to protect your children and goats...
...when she was admitted to the Topeka State Hospital in 1932. Suffering from delusions that her husband was trying to kill her (by putting formaldehyde on her toothbrush), she had tried to kill him. A year later the hospital recorded her as "mentally better . . . but . . . still delusional." Four years later, the hospital recorded that she had "shown a tendency to injure others and should be observed for a much longer period . . . before a parole is considered." In 1941, an examining board adjudged her "incurably insane...